h1. Proverbs 7 *1* My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. *2* Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. *3* Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. *4* Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: *5* That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. *6* For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, *7* And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, *8* Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, *9* In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: *10* And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. *11* (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: *12* Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) *13* So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, *14* I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. *15* Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. *16* I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. *17* I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. *18* Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. *19* For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: *20* He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. *21* With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. *22* He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; *23* Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. *24* Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. *25* Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. *26* For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. *27* Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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